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F. B. URBANO.

GARBAGE CAN.

APPLICATION FILED ocr. 23. 1911;.

1 ,3 1 5,803 lafcnflwl Sept. 9, 1919.

UNITED STATES PATENT orrrcn.

FAUBTINO B. UBBANO, 0F CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO JOSE IAOARLIG, OF 0030191110, CALIFORNIA.

GARBAGE-CAIN.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Faos'rmo B. Unnano, a citizen of the United States, residing at Linda Vista, State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garbage-Cans; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to garbage cans.

The object of the invention is to provide a garbage can into which garbage may be entered without permitting the escape of odors from previously deposited material. In the reassembling of elements which eonstitute my improvement, I have provided a suitable seal between the receiving hopper and the dumping trap, so that the passage of odors is efiectually prevented.

A further object of the invention is to provide such a device as may be used as an attachment for ordinary garbage cans, so that when one can has been filled, the hopper may be shifted to another can, and its functions continuously utilized.

With the above ob ects in view, and such others relating to the details of "construction, as may hereinafter appear, my inven tion will now be fully set forth and described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

In the'drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the hopper structure showing it mounted upon the upper end of the garbage can,

Fig. 2 is a vertical section therethrough,

Fig.-3 is a plan view of the hopper bottom,

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary elevation of the mountingof the hopper bottom, and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail sectional view.

Referring more particularly to the drawin s, 1 represents a garbage can which is oi ordinary construction. Fitted over the top of the can 1, after its usual lid has been removed, is the flange 2 on the lower end of a frusto-conical jacket 3. The upper endof the jacket 3 is outwardly flanged to provide a seat 4, having a hopper 5 which is also frusto-oonical in shape but stands in inverted relation to the jacket 3. The hopper 5, which is open at the top and bottom extends Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 9, 1919.

inwardly beyond the seat a foran appreciable distance, and has its free edge inwardly rolled to provide the annular head 6.. Normally rested against the head 6, and mounted to swing downwardly away from the latter is a hopper bottom 7. Said hopper bottom 7 is sha ed from sheet metal in the form of a sha ow cone, with its marginal portion downturned into the annular flange 8. The annular flange 8 is surrounded by a hoop or band 9 to which it may be secured. The band 9 has an arm 10 which extends outwardly and downwardl from the band, through the wall of the jac et 3, a slot 11 being provided therein for that purpose. Extending between the flared surfaces of the jacket 3 and the hopper 5 are standards 12 having the bearing pin 13 upon which the arm 10 is pivoted. Thus, outside of the hopper structure, the arm 10 constitutes an operating lever.

Coincident with the rolled head 6 of the hopper wall the upper surface of the hopper bottom 7 is annularly grooved so as to provide a seat within which the head 6 is received. -A joint is thereby formed which effectually seals the hopper against the passage oi odors from the contents of the garbage receptacle, without the use of separate paekings or similar devices.

Below the handle 10 the outer surface of the jacket 3 is provided with a book 14 which is adapted to be engaged by a retainingring 15 pivoted upon the handle 10, so that the hopper bottom may be locked in its closed position. The top of the hopper 5 is closed'by means of a cover 16, which in the use of the device is removed before the hopper bottom 7 is released, so that the garbage is directly deposited upon the hopper bottom. Then, if thecover has been replaced upon the to of the hopper, the hopper bottom 7 is re eased by disengaging the ring 15 from the hook 14, so that the hopper bottom may be swung downwardly to dump the material carried thereon into the can 1.

It will be apparent from the foregoing description that the improved structure pro vides a very eificient and sanitary attachment for garbage cans, and that by reason of its construction as an attachment, will be particularly advantageous in institutions in which numbers of cans of garbage may be moved from one eon to another as the conditions require.

What I claim as my invention is:--

An attachment for garbage cans comprising a jacket for engagement upon the top of the can, a. hopper carried by the jacket with its lower end projecting into and below the upper edge of the jacket, a. conical hopper bottom swingingly engaged with the jacket and. having an annular groove in its upper surface disposed to receive the lower edge of the hopper when the bottom is swlmg up- 

